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SubjectRe: [CFT][PATCH *] faster cache reclaim
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:38:27PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> It also reduces the distance between inactive_shortage and
> inactive_plenty, so kswapd should spend much less time rolling
> over pages from zones we're not interested in.
>
> This patch is meant to fix the problems where heavy cache
> activity flushes out pages from the working set, while still
> allowing the cache to put some pressure on the working set.

Rik,

It work well when I pressure it under some intensive IO operations under
dpkg and made progress when previous VMs basically froze. I did have two
running programs that have large working sets which created a lot of
contention and some CPU choppiness, but possibly some per process thrash
control should allow for both to make progress. ;-)

Good work.

bill

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